Biomedical Engineering Reference
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FIGURE 4.105
Load cell setup to measure the generative force of PAN muscle (top). Single
PAN fiber adhered to two screw bolts before test (bottom left) and after test (bottom right).
FIGURE 4.106
The modified test setup (left) and fiber bundle (right).
design helped to avoid possible cation or anion mismatches arising from the short
distance between the two electrodes without losing the electric potential significantly.
Two thermocouples were also used to keep track of the temperature changes
during the experiment. Figure 4.106 shows such a PAN actuator system. Each tested
sample had the same dimension: a 175-mm length with 30 strands in a bundle having
an approximate mass of 0.4 g.
